Mystery Photos
QLF is known for merging interests in cultural heritage, stewardship, and community-based conservation. Photos below reflect this spectrum. These images will test your breadth of Atlantic Region knowledge and your QLF experience. Good Luck!
Photo 1: This photo is what species? Hint: QLF's Trish Nash uses such photos for identification in her Marine Species at Risk Program.
Photo 2: A program icon for many, what is the building and where is it? Hint: Living Rivers Alumni have a leg up.
Photo 3: What is the flag and what is the siginificance of the yellow star? Hint: Photo taken in Northern New Brunswick.
Photo 4: QLF has long been involved in seabird conservation. What is this species and what is its common name (English or French) used among community residents on the Quebec North Shore. Hint: the bird looks like it's nickname found in more urban environments.
These photos will be up for the summer. A prize will be awarded to the first person to correctly answer all the questions. A second prize winner will be drawn randomly from a pool of other correct entries. Send your answers to and include "Photo Contest" in the subject of your email.
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April Photo
Congratulations to Julie Early for identifying the mystery photo for April. It is no surprise that she would recognize the boardwalk to Western Brook Pond, Gros Morne National Park. As so many of you know, Julie has worn many hats for QLF over 30 years. She worked as an intern for Ocean Horizons and later ran the Intern Program out of Ipswich. She followed that with a stint as program manager for a community-based conservation effort called FishNet. Just recently she retired as the Executive Director of the Island Foundation, Marion, Massachusetts. She is Certified Flight Instructor, see Alumni News. Julie is also a member of the QLF Corporation.
The photo is looking toward the inland fiord at Western Brook Pond, Gros Morne National Park, Newfoundland. This park of 1,805 square km was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987 because of its outstanding natural features. It is a preferred destination for geologists interested in plate tectonics. Gros Morne is just north of Deer Lake, Newfoundland, from where begins the viking trail, actively used by tourists heading towards the Viking reconstruction at L'Anse aux Meadows.
QLF's first marine program began on the Grey Islands (near Conche) in 1976. It was called the Grey Island School and ran for several years. The program then moved to Fogo Island and was renamed Ocean Horizons. The site was changed again in the late 1980s to Gros Morne National Park. Gros Morne was the ideal classroom for QLF instructors to introduce Newfoundland and Labrador young people to the abundant natural history treasures of the province. There are many QLF Alumni who served on the staffs of Grey Island School and Ocean Horizons.
March Photo
Congratulations to Nathalie Zinger, Regional Vice President (Quebec), Nature Conservancy of Canada! Nathalie worked in the 1980s on QLF’s Marine Bird Conservation Project.
Of course, Nathalie recognized immediately that the photo was of Perroquets Island, part of the Brador Bay Migratory Bird Sanctuary, Quebec Lower North Shore.
In the Sanctuary ten seabird species breed and nest. The most common of these are Atlantic Puffins, Razorbills (Tinkers), Common Murres (Turres), and Great Black-backed Gulls. The surrounding waters of the Sanctuary are a feeding area for Blue and Fin Whales, Humpbacks and Harbour Porpoise. Killer Whales have also been sighted here.
The Brador Bay Sanctuary consisting of Greenly and Perroquets Islands contain the largest Atlantic Puffin colony in Quebec, 20,000 individuals. This number is deceiving because species numbers have declined 65% since 1935.
Scores of QLF Interns and Volunteers have worked for QLF’s Marine Bird Conservation Project. Perroquets Island is owned by the Province of Quebec Society for the Protection of Birds (PQSPB). The PQSPB has been an active partner with QLF in wildlife conservation in Brador Bay.
The viewing platform called the Perroquets Island Lookout is named for Josh Nove, a QLF Intern who worked five summers on the Quebec North Shore. Tragically, Josh died in 1997 in a drowning accident in Alaska while on assignment for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
The platform is a ten minute drive from Blanc Sablon. It is one of the many stops along the Jacques Cartier Trail, an 80 km drive featuring a series of outdoor interpretation panels, scenic vistas, museums, and boardwalks in six coastal villages. QLF has been actively involved in the development of the Jacques Cartier Trail.
